Working People
Working People (in partnership with In These Times and The Real News Network) is a podcast about working-class lives in the 21st century. In every episode, you’ll hear interviews with workers from all walks of life. We talk about their life stories, their jobs, politics, and families, their joys and hopes, their dreams and struggles. Overall, Working People aims to share and celebrate the diverse stories of working-class people, to remind ourselves that our stories matter, and to build a sense of shared struggle and solidarity between workers around the world.
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Baltimore’s billion-dollar disaster through the eyes of a longshoreman
We speak with John Blom, a veteran longshoreman who worked in the Port of Baltimore for over 30 years, about the Key Bridge collapse and the conditions that led to this catastrophe.
Recent episodes
South Baltimore residents on the toxic reality of living in a ‘sacrifice zone’
Cherry Hill, Westport, Mt. Winans, Lakeland, Brooklyn, and Curtis Bay lead Maryland in pollution levels as measured by the Department of the Environment.
Before East Palestine, there was Portsmouth
Vina Colley was hired as an electrician at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in 1980, where her employers knowingly exposed her, her coworkers, and her community to radioactive material. She has been fighting for justice, accountability, and compensation ever since.
Give the people musicals: Gene Bruskin, the people’s artist
Art has always played a role in revolution. For Gene Bruskin, cultivating culture in social movements has been a lifelong pursuit.
East Palestine residents demand fully-funded healthcare
A new coalition of residents and workers in solidarity with East Palestine calls for fully-funded healthcare from the federal government for survivors of the train derailment catastrophe last year.
A new coalition demands healthcare and justice for East Palestine
Organizations and activists from around the country are gathering in East Palestine, Ohio, this Saturday to raise up residents’ demands for accountability from the federal government.
‘I fight so that my son is remembered’: Brett Cross on life in Uvalde before and after the shooting
Brett Cross, father to Uziyah Garcia, one of the 21 victims of the Robb Elementary School shooting, opens up about life before the shooting and what he’s done since to hold city, state, and federal officials accountable.
Why do railroad workers keep dying on the job?
The race for profit gives railroad corporations incentive to pack schedules and loosen standards, even if it means killing workers.
Johns Hopkins grad student-workers picket as contract negotiations stall
One year after their historic union election victory, Johns Hopkins grad workers say they’re hitting a dead end at the bargaining table, so they’re hitting the streets, putting on practice pickets to build a credible strike threat and show the administration what’s in store if more progress is not made in bargaining soon.
Baltimore’s co-ops show the power of a ‘solidarity economy’
These democratically operated, worker-owned businesses show a different way of working is possible.
Homegrown Sandwich shop workers hit 100 days on strike
The Seattle sustainable sandwich chain sparked a months-long strike by firing a union organizer last fall.
One year later, East Palestine residents want Norfolk-Southern held accountable
Poisoned air and water, compromised health, lost jobs, and meager assistance. These are the realities confronting East Palestine residents in the wake of the Norfolk-Southern train derailment.
Kaiser workers win big after largest healthcare strike in US history
After mobilizing over 75,000 workers in a three-day strike this October, the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions won a new contract for hundreds of healthcare facilities around the country.
These Brazilian farmworkers escaped slavery, now they’re taking back the land
In this exclusive interview, we speak with Brazilian farmworkers who were rescued from slave-like working conditions about their lives and about a radical new government program to return the land and means of production to workers.
They were just another East Palestine family—until Norfolk Southern set off a bomb in their lives
The Albrights were a normal East Palestine family before the Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern train derailment upended their lives. Suffering dire health effects after the derailment, abandoned by Norfolk Southern and the government, what are they supposed to do?
Amazon fired him for union organizing—1.5 years later, he’s still fighting for accountability
Matt Littrell was terminated from Amazon in 2022 in suspected retaliation for his work to unionize his warehouse under the ALU. After over a year in legal limbo, he’s still fighting to get his settlement.
‘This is McCarthyism all over again’: NY court blocks union from voting on pro-Palestine resolution
In a seemingly unprecedented move, the NY Supreme Court just granted a temporary restraining order preventing members of the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys – UAW Local 2325 from even voting on a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
A three-minute message from Gaza: ‘I lost my house, I lost my memories, I lost everything’
“I feel scared, and I don’t have any way to describe what is happening in Gaza… I lost my house. I lost my memories. I lost everything that I built and everything that I have.”
The Teamsters picket Amazon in Baltimore to demand company rehire fired unionized drivers in California
Striking Amazon workers from California came to Baltimore to picket the company’s BWI5 warehouse. TRNN was on the ground speaking to strikers and local union and community members who came out to show support for them.
Tortured Palestinian activist describes military and settler carnage in the West Bank
Calling from Hebron, Issa Amro had just barely escaped with his life after being chased by Israeli settlers before speaking with The Real News.
I worked for Ford for 30 years. This is a new day for the UAW
Sherry Cothren, who worked at Ford for 30 years before retiring in 2007, has a message to her fellow autoworkers: “just keep fighting, because the union is so invaluable.”
The US government has abandoned East Palestine
It’s been months since Norfolk Southern’s train derailment explosion, and residents of East Palestine still haven’t gotten the help they need.
Mass protests have failed to bring about social change. It’s time for a new strategy.
2010-2020 saw more mass protests around the world than at any other point in human history, but the societal changes that resulted were often the opposite of what protesters demanded. Author Vincent Bevins explains why.
If the government shuts down, so does the NLRB—that’ll hurt the strikes
A government shutdown would place NLRB workers on furlough, leaving striking workers without a crucial ally in their fight.
UAW workers explain why they’re ready to strike
Auto workers are poised to strike against the Big Three automakers: Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis—workers from each of these companies explain what’s driven them to this point.
South Korea’s war on unions has geopolitical implications
Biden has embraced deeply unpopular President Yoon Seok Yeol for his pro-US policies, willfully ignoring South Korea’s brutal crackdown on labor and its human rights implications.
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